Children Quotes

• All I know is that once you have children, you put them before anything you're feeling or going through. Today, my daughter walked into the room and I said, 'I love you, baby,' and she said, 'Well, I don't like you,' and I said to my wife, 'The meaner she is to me, the more I love her.'

  

  Jeremy Sisto
  • She
  • Today
  • Feeling

• He that hath wife and children hath given hostages to fortune; for they are impediments to great enterprises, either of virtue or mischief.

  

  Francis Bacon
  • Great
  • Children
  • Wife

• By sports like these are all their cares beguil'd;The sports of children satisfy the child.

  

  Oliver Goldsmith
  • Children
  • Sports

• Monica Swinton, twenty-nine, of graceful shape and lambent eye, went and sat in her living room, arranging her limbs with taste. She began by sitting and thinking; soon she was just sitting. Time waited on her shoulder with the maniac slowth it reserves for children, the insane, and wives whose husbands are away improving the world.

  

  Brian Aldiss
  • Time
  • World
  • Thinking

• If you can't give children optimism, then what are you doing?

  

  Matt Haig
  • Children

• Due to my sometimes erratic behavior, my children tried very hard to avoid me and not do anything to set me off.

  

  Patty Duke
  • Children

• Blame is for God and small children.

  

  Dustin Hoffman
  • God
  • Children
  • Small

• I hope to encourage more children to discover and love reading, but I want to focus particularly on the appreciation of picture books…. Picture books are for everybody at any age, not books to be left behind as we grow older. The best ones leave a tantalising gap between the pictures and the words, a gap that is filled by the reader's imagination, adding so much to the excitement of reading a book.

  

  Anthony Browne
  • Book
  • Hope
  • Age

• Unlike other children, I did not get a branded video game. Mine was an open circuit that even buzzed.

  

  Pranav Mistry
  • Children
  • Game

• Pizza certainly has its place in school meals, but equating it with broccoli, carrots and celery seriously undermines this nation's efforts to support children's health and their ability to learn because of better school nutrition.

  

  Jared Polis
  • School
  • Support
  • Health

• Knowledge is going to make you stronger. Knowledge is going to let you control your life. Knowledge is going to give you the wisdom to teach their children. Knowledge is the thing that makes you smile in the face of disaster.

  

  Avery Brooks
  • Life
  • Knowledge
  • Control

• Society should see parenting as a public health issue and help parents to bring their children up feeling loved. We have birthing classes, but no parenting classes. The latter is desperately needed if we are to avoid self-destruction.

  

  Bernie Siegel
  • Up
  • Help
  • Parents

• You don't torture people. You don't indiscriminately attack civilians. You protect as good as you can the impact of your warfare on women and children.

  

  Peter Maurer
  • People
  • Good
  • Women

• For most women, including women who want to have children, contraception is not an option; it is a basic health care necessity.

  

  Louise Slaughter
  • Women
  • Health
  • Option

• All my children are my babies. They're our babies.

  

  Stevie Wonder
  • Children
  • Babies

• My wife Kari and I have three incredible kids. And like parents everywhere, we want our children to grow up in a country and a world that is peaceful, and where, if they work hard, they can reach their God-given potential.

  

  Denis McDonough
  • Up
  • World
  • Work

• My life is really quite conservative. I've been married nearly 50 years. I don't have hobbies or children. I don't much care to travel. I've never had a big social life. I really just stay home, except when I go to work.

  

  Christopher Walken
  • Life
  • Work
  • Home

• I urge you to pursue preserving your personal history to allow your children and grandchildren to know who you were as a child and what your hopes and dreams were.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • History
  • Grandchildren
  • Urge

• All men are my children. What I desire for my own children, and I desire their welfare and happiness both in this world and the next, that I desire for all men. You do not understand to what extent I desire this, and if some of you do understand, you do not understand the full extent of my desire.

  

  Ashoka
  • Men
  • Children
  • Desire

• As long as you know that most men are like children, you know everything.

  

  Coco Chanel
  • Men
  • Long
  • Children

• Our parents had Ph.D.s, but we were dirty ragamuffin children. I spent a huge amount of time by myself. I daydreamed and learned how to be alone and not be lonely.

  

  Rachel Kushner
  • Time
  • Parents
  • Alone

• All adults who care about a baby will naturally be in competition for that baby.... Each adult wishes that he or she could do each job a bit more skillfully for the infant or small child than the other.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • She
  • Job
  • Small

• My mom was a terrible parent of young children. And thank God - I thank God every time I think of it - I was sent to my paternal grandmother. Ah, but my mother was a great parent of a young adult.

  

  Maya Angelou
  • Time
  • Great
  • God

• I guess I so desperately want to see us put this planet right. It's so horrifying to me that a fifth of us are starving every night, and that forty thousand children die every single day.

  

  Ann Druyan
  • Night
  • Die
  • Single

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